Crime Statistics for Little Carleton, Bispham, Lancashire, 2025

Is Little Carleton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1140 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Little Carleton, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	475
Anti Social Behaviour	328
Criminal Damage Arson	96
Shoplifting	60
Other Theft	40
Burglary	36
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Crime	21
Drugs	16
Public Order	16
Robbery	12
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1140

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Little Carleton. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Little Carleton

We've taken the ten nearest places to Little Carleton and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Little Carleton has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Hoohill (0.88 miles)	1270
Layton (1.39 miles)	1073
Little Layton (0.88 miles)	832
Little Carleton	566
Warbreck (0.62 miles)	527
Carleton (0.62 miles)	192
Hardhorn (1.24 miles)	143
Staining (1.39 miles)	139
Breedy Butts (1.39 miles)	71
Little Poulton (1.39 miles)	68

Where are the most violent places near Little Carleton?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Little Carleton and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Hoohill	525
Little Carleton	475
Little Layton	431
Layton	386
Warbreck	200
Carleton	120
Staining	74
Hardhorn	57
Breedy Butts	40
Little Poulton	21

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Little Carleton?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Little Carleton to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Little Carleton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Little Carleton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Little Carleton is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Claremont	96
2	Brunswick	94
3	Layton	82
4	Warbreck	82
5	Park	75
6	Bispham	62
7	Ingthorpe	58
8	Greenlands	52
9	Tithebarn	31
10	Hardhorn with High Cross	27
11	Staining and Weeton	25

Which road in Little Carleton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Little Carleton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.